A rare Spanish (Catalan) façon de Venise ewer or 'biberon', late 16th century

Of distinctive yellow-green tint, the ovoid body with a slender neck enclosed at the top applied with a vermicular collar and a finial, with a double loop handle and flattened pointed spout applied with a glass trail at the tip, the base with a trailed footring, 22.5cm high

This type of vessel is more commonly seen with opaque white latticinio decoration. A very similar plain example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayersischen Nationalmuseums München, vol.1 (1982), no.122. Another in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse, Glas (1963), p.92, no.193. Others of the same distinctive form are illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.381-2, figs.411-4.